US musician Bruce Springsteen performs with The E Street Band at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris on July 11, 2016. (AFP/Bertrand Guay)
Bruce Springsteen announced Thursday he will release a new album on Oct. 23, giving fans a sneak peek by dropping its title track « Letter To You. »
With its layered guitars and dramatic percussion the song is classic E Street Band — the group Springsteen has performed with since 1972 — which returned to back The Boss’s 20th studio album after he released his 2019 record « Western Stars » solo.
« And I love the sound of the E Street Band playing completely live in the studio, in a way we’ve never done before, and with no overdubs, » he continued, saying they made the album in just five days, recording at his home studio in New Jersey.
« Letter to You » features nine songs Springsteen penned recently, along with new versions of three previously unreleased tracks from the 1970s: « Janey Needs a Shooter, » « If I Was the Priest » and « Song for Orphans. »
The album is Springsteen’s first time back with the E Street Band since his 2016 tour « The River. »
It comes one year after New Jersey’s favorite son released his meditative « Western Stars » album and concert film hearkening back to the 1970s-era golden age of the Laurel Canyon music scene.
It was a musical departure for the superstar who burst onto the international stage in 1975 with « Born to Run, » developing a signature hard-driving rock style recounting the mundanities of everyday life.
Last year in a public conversation with Martin Scorsese Springsteen revealed he was likely returning to those roots, saying he had struggled writing songs for the rock band but had a breakthrough.
In the spring of 2019, he said: « I wrote almost an album’s worth of material for the band… it just came out of almost nowhere. I had almost two weeks of those daily visitations and it was so nice. It makes you so happy. »
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